The Sasaki Family In Tokyo Sonata By Kiyoshi Kurosawa

The 1946 film The Killers is a renowned film noir based off of Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same title, focusing on the detailed backstory and investigation for the motive of the murder of Pete Lund/Ole Anderson, commonly known and referred to as “The Swede.” A film noir is a term made originally to describe American mystery and thriller movies produced in the time period from 1944-1954, primarily marked by moods of menace, pessimism, and fatalism. Although the film does not focus on the war itself at all, it still puts forth interesting new ways in how gender relations can be stereotypical as well as divergent proceeding the Second World War.

As mentioned earlier, Miss Sasagawara does possess worthy merits such as being intellectual and refined. However, her merits are disregarded simply because she was different in appearance from the rest. Yamamoto uses Miss Sasagawara’s character to challenge the presupposed notion that people who are different are necessarily not of value and thus unable to contribute positively to society. There should not be a belittling attitude taken, such as the reception Miss Sasagawara received when she took upon herself to teach a class of girls ballet, and was the only adult rewarded with a bath towel, an intimate gift that she had to open in front of the audience, bearing in mind that this very act could possibly be seen as humiliating based on traditional conservative Japanese culture.

Since 1995, Shoji Meguro (born in Tokyo on June 4, 1971) has been composing soundtracks and original soundtracks (ost), which are classified as music for video game, and is the game director for the Japanese video game company Atlus for 21 years. Atlus, established on April 7, 1986 in Tokyo, is known for producing video game franchises including the Shin Megami Tensei series and Persona series, toward the game genre Japanese role-playing games. The Persona franchise have been selling well in Japan and globally (See Figure 1 and Figure 2). Persona is also very popular to teenagers both domestically and globally for many reasons: 1) Persona is able to uphold the traditional jrpg elements (video game fans), 2) teenagers are able to relate

Katsu Kokichi’s autobiography, “Musui’s Story,” documents the life of a samurai in Japan’s late Tokugawa period who adopted the name Musui in his retirement. Katsu is something of a black sheep within his family, being largely uneducated and deemed unfit for the bureaucratic office 's samurai of his standing were expected to hold. As such, he typifies in many ways the lower ronin, or masterless samurai, many of whom famously led roaming, directionless lives and wreaked havoc among the urban poor and merchant classes. The novel addresses the decaying power of samurai throughout the Tokugawa period and depicts their struggle to find purpose. Throughout the story, Katsu is impacted by three interconnected systems of power that impact his life

Film noirs describe pessimistic films associated with black and white visual styles, crime fiction, and dark themes. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard presents many themes that are common with the genre film noir, but also introduces some differences from the typical movie in that genre.

The two main scenes in the Piano Man are the mansion where Phil Lieberman lives and the telephone booth where the main character, Tobey Wentz, is calling Mr. Tonino. The mansion is very well furnished with a grand piano, a bar and many paintings. The painting as well as some statues are of naked men. The phone booth is in a rural area with trees and concrete in the background. Tobey’s car is also in the background of the phone booth because he drove there to talk to Mr. Tonino before going over to the mansion. One object that stood out was the old style of telephone with a dial, ear and mouth piece. This would cause me to assume that the film takes place a long time ago, however, the car that Tobey Wentz is from the mid-90s so it must be more

To illustrate the dysfunctional families portrayed in Tokyo Sonata, we have to understand the traditional Japanese and how does it work functionally.

Spirited Away is an Oscar award winning, 2001 animated film from Japan, written, directed, and animated by Hayao Miyazaki (IMDb: Spirited Away). The story follows Chihiro, A young girl who is dealing with separation from family, tradition, and self-identity. Studio Ghibli films often have younger protagonists in their films, but in an interview with Miyazaki commented that “[he] felt [Japan] only offered such things as crushes and romance to 10-year-old girls” and that “ [Studio Ghibli] has not made a film for 10-year-old girls, who are in their first stage of adolescence” (Miyazaki 2001). Here, Miyazaki is signifying the lack of, what he sees to be, a proper presentation of a tweenaged girl. Miyazaki refrains from making the main plotline

The film that I have chosen as a case study for my final paper is: Pan’s labyrinth (2006) by director Guillermo del Toro, and it is a case of real-fantastic cinema. Here I present my essay entitled “ The narrative power of sound in Pan’s labyrinth “of Guillermo Del Toro . It will analyze the sound design , the identification of its elements, the ways in which they are presented and their interrelations, to understand and explain how these elements work together in conjunction with the visual image, to support the narration of the story. Consequently, this research seeks to answer the question: How does the sound in the film ‘Pans Labyrinth' relates to

How do the scenes where the Japanese Manager’s wife was about to give birth and the American worker who wanted to take his child to a doctor’s appointment illustrate cultural differences in focus? These scenes reflect the American idea of self-focus and individualism, and the Japanese idea of group-focus and collectivism. When the American employee wanted to leave to be with his son, hunt says, “he lives for his kids,” and the Kaz replies, “But the work suffers.” In America, it far more important to us to be with our individual families and care for them, than it is to care for the company. It’s the opposite in Japan as reflected by the Japanese employee who stayed to help the company, even when his wife is giving birth. He acted for the good of the

Both Rob Marshall and Warwick Thornton  have very distinctive and different directory movie styles. However, In memoirs of a Geisha (Directed by Rob Marshall) and Samson & Delilah (Directed by Warwick Thornton) Both Warwick and Marshall are able to communicate their ideas of exploitation similarly through a variety of shots and film techniques. These techniques are used in great succession and are able to capture the audience to sympathize with these characters at their lowest points.

The film I have chosen to explore the micro features on is The Pianist (2002) which is directed by Roman Polanski. Polanski assures that the audience gets a sense of belonging to that period of history and gets to explore the theme of discrimination through the characters life risking challenges that they face throughout the film. This micro essay will explore the following features, framing and camera movement in a 5 minute sequence.

The film called “Whiplash” consists of a plot starting with the main character Andrew Neiman, going the fictional Shaffer Conservatory of Music with is a university focused on majors involving music. Neiman has been an aspiring musician since he was a kid, always striving to become better no matter the costs. He starts his musical education at the conservatory in what seems to be a regular jazz band until Terence Fletcher, the jazz instructor of the highly praised and advanced jazz band selects him Andrew to proceed into his class. Andrew being an admirer of this advanced jazz group, feels enlivened to have this opportunity to enhance his jazz performance skills and to pursue his career as a jazz musician. As Neiman arrives to his class, the ensemble plays and he sees that Fletcher takes music seriously and verbally abuses his students with they aren’t up to code with Fletcher. But before Neiman plays at his first session with Fletcher’s jazz ensemble, Andrew is met by Fletcher himself to not worry about what he saw, and tells him that “You know, Charlie Parker became “Bird” because Jones threw a cymbal at his head.” This sole quote has the basis of the plot and motivation of the antagonist who is Fletcher, seen in the eyes of Neiman. As Neiman plays the piece “Whiplash,” Neiman is baffled on how Fletcher treats him on what seems to him minor inconsistencies like the tempo on being accurate, so Fletcher throws a chair at Neiman as he’s playing, which is reminiscent of what

The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics of obsession or fame. More specifically, the obsession of fame, and the illusion of happiness that fame projects. The main characters of the movie both urn for the fame of being the world’s most successful entertainer, even if for different reasons.

Kelly’s company put her in an unrealistic situation of requiring an answer within two days of extending her the position abroad. Kelly’s company should not have assumed because she had great success in business relationships in London and Germany, which have similar cultures to the United States, it would have implied she would have been just as successful in Japan. The company lacked in preparing her in the customs and cultural ways of the Japanese, instead only considering the financial compensation as enough motivating factor. The company should have provided training of Japanese for the family, assisted in Joe’s networking in Tokyo to locate a job and should have been readily available for Kelly’s family with any questions and provide timely follow-up. Kelly lacked in doing her due diligence into the Japanese culture and fully understand what it would take to move her family abroad. A little research on her part into Japanese culture, customs and etiquette would have provided her with forethought on how to handle herself in Japanese